A new version of the Creative Commons license came out today. It’s the fourth iteration of the legal agreement, which was first released in 2002 and has since become nearly ubiquitous on the web among ...

Email is a part of our everyday lives and it’s been on the technological scene since 1965 when the first electronic message was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But it’s American ...

We all use the CC–carbon copy or courtesy copy–function to keep others in the loop and add transparency. As helpful as the CC field can be, it has a downside, as illustrated by the above story. We’ll ...

It’s always seemed quite absurd to me that the default mode of communication adopted by most modern workplaces is email. As if the ins and outs of office politics weren’t perilous enough already, ...

A professional business memo is a workplace communication that can be sent in either electronic or print form. Less professional than the business letter, a business memo should still be written using ...

I noted yesterday that Wired was releasing its future staff-shot photos under a Creative Commons license. They’re choosing a “noncommercial” license, but they specifically state that editorial use (by ...